So I already told you guys a friend of mines birthday is this weekend and she loves Bioshock. What better excuse to make something on a laser?! So I decided to take the bioshock logo and just put her name inside it instead.
It took a couple tries to get the kerf correct. Different for different materials. And these things were tough to get in. You want it to be tight, but sometimes it just doesn’t fit. That’s ok, just pull it out a little, dab some superglue and smash it back in. Good times.
Next is to make another copy of the design and reverse it for the acrylic engraving. (I forgot to reverse the holes and had to do it again. Who doesn’t make holes symmetrical?! - OCD)
Extremely cool! I have the bioshock logo on my “todo when glowforge comes” list but as it is as a wall decoration. But I must say the coaster idea is a good one as well. And the name change makes it a really cool gift!
Thank you! It was definitely some work. Getting the pegs right was some experimentation as well. Im still working on a final solution for the top piece. I was going to glue it down originally, but now that I decided I want to keep it removable I might just engrave them a little more deeply and widen them a bit to let it just kinda sit on it more snugly.
No, most of it was, but I needed some 1/4" acrylic for the standoffs so I just used some smoke colored acrylic I had sitting around. I originally made the standoffs out of MDF, but they snapped really easily, so I went with acrylic. The kerfs are completely different. It took a couple tries to get it just right, luckily cuts take seconds, so not much of a huge time sink.
I originally designed this to be lit and controlled, but as we have to be there tonight I just didnt have enough time to get everything together.
The holes are big enough to fit LEDS in them, and would light the acrylic on top as well. There are some tweaks that I want to make to this, and hopefully will return to it sometime in the future to do a v2 =).
And THIS is a fabulous example of why I climbed aboard this movement. The ability to CREATE instead of laboring in set-up. Excellent job in making something a friend will treasure.
